Watchful waiting for some children with a mediastinal mass: the potential role for18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography: a case report and review of the literature

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Is there a role for positron emission tomography with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose in the initial staging of nodal negative oral and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma

✍ Sandro J. Stoeckli; Hans Steinert; Madeleine Pfaltz; Stephan Schmid 📂 Article 📅 2002 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 71 KB 👁 1 views

## Abstract ## Background The aim of our study was to assess the value of positron emission tomography (PET) with 18F‐fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) for the staging of clinically nodal negative necks in oral and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) using sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy and elect